The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...
By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic conseq...
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were ...
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Throu...
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...
Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wondermen...
Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Game...
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...